Mr Winter said that as the world becomes desensitised to the group's beheading videos, which started last year, casting a child as executioner is attended as "powerful propaganda" to shock and draw attention.
The eighth issue of the publication emerged on social media earlier this week, and is notable for including a two-page spread about boys that IS had previously depicted killing prisoners on video, along with an interpretation of Islamic scripture that it claims justifies its use of children as executioners.
Iran is one of the last executioners of child offenders, in violation of international law.
By the end, Schrott has appeared in glittering drag with skeleton mask, while a tiny gilded-winged child mimed the role of executioner and, in a clumsy finale, we watched "backstage" as a faux lighting rig blinded us before the final felling of the "set".
Regardless, when a magical figure who supposedly loves children is depicted as an executioner, it can terrify viewers unaccustomed to horror's penchant for button-pushing character assassination.
During an interview last week at the Paris Air Show, he said he was willing to donate a substantial amount of money to set up a program that would save stray cats and dogs from the executioner and give them to children.
Here Matty Demaret (Barry Pepper), who as a child failed his rite of passage as an executioner, is now a frustrated twenty-something in Brooklyn, relegated by his high-level mobster father, Benny Chains Dennis Hopperr), to lucrative but soft, low-risk assignments.
– Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory benefits executioner, wasn't too keen on child poverty being measured in money, so he tried – and failed – to redefine how we measure it.
